Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22388

Medium

Published: 04 January 2025

Published
04 January 2025
Modified
20 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0069 72.3th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22388 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Optimizely Optimizely Cms. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Optimizely EPiServer.CMS.Core before 12.22.0. A high-severity Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the CMS, allowing malicious actors to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript code, potentially compromising user data, escalating privileges, or executing unauthorized actions.…

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The issue exists in multiple areas, including content editing, link management, and file uploads.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

optimizely
optimizely cms
≤ 12.22.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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